Session B (10:00-11:30 Thursday)
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Robinson Jeffers: Inveterate Prophet of Change and Ecological Wholeness
Chair: Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach
Dirk Aardsma, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Toward a ‘Poetics of Place’”
John
Cusatis, University of South Carolina,
Columbia: “Destined for the West: the Jungian Aspect in Cather and Jeffers”
Pierre
Lagayette, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne:
“Jeffers’s California as a Paradigm of U.S. Hegemonic Worldview”
Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach: “Jeffers’s West as a Metaphor for the 21st Century”
The Place of Aesthetics in Western Studies
Chair: Scott Derrick, Rice University
Nat Lewis, St. Michael’s College: “Remedial Aesthetics”
Stephen Tatum, University of Utah: “Orphaned Beauty”
William R. Handley, University of Southern California: “Pleasing Form”
Bonney MacDonald, Union College: “Beauty in Motion at Bonneville: I Could’ve Had a V-8”
Cruising the Barrios and Reservations: Story Stealers, Wannabes, Tourists
Chair: José F. Aranda, Jr., Rice University
Marcial González, University of California, Berkeley: “Authenticity and the Form of the Novel: Danny Santiago’s Famous All Over Town”
Rachel Rich, Utah State University: “Reckoning With Difference: Cultural Tourism in Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima”
Mckenzi Mckenzie, University of Arizona, Tucson: “White Kid(s) Read(s) the Indian(s): A Rhetorical Analysis of ‘Paths of Life,’ A Self-Reflexive Ethnographic Exhibit of Ten Native American Tribes of the Southwest”
Linda Lizut Helstern, University of Texas-Pan American: “Steal This Book! Dimensions of Textuality in the Novels of Louis Owens”
Art, Activism, Pedagogy: Decolonizing Western Master Tropes
Chair: Vincent Perez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Tace
Hedrick, University of Florida: "(South)Western
Origins, Changing Futures: Borderlands/La frontera and Chicana/o
Historiography."
Jeff
Berglund, Northern Arizona University:
“Rememories of Hwééldi: Diné Writing”
Ryan Hediger, University of Oregon: “Terry Tempest Williams’ Physical Language”
Jennifer Lynn Stoever, University of Southern California: “‘Re-Storying’ Los Angeles: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and the Artistry of Community”
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Variations on the “Regeneration through Violence” Thesis
Chair: Gioia Woods, Northern Arizona University
Gioia
Woods, Northern Arizona University: “How
the Myth was Spun: Cowboys, Indians, and Iraq”
Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown: “Sovereignty, Psychosis, and Bare Life in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian”
David Mogen, Colorado State University: “Louis Owens and The Indian’s Escape from Gothic”
Rod
Romesburg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University: “Regeneration through Vampirism: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s New
Frontier”
Paths
Less Taken in Western Criticism: Comparativism, Gothicism, Technology Studies,
Comics
Chair: Mark Busby, Texas State University, San Marcos
Tom
Hillard, University of Arizona: “The
Frontier World of Edgar Huntly: Towards a Theory of a Nature Gothic”
John Donahue, Champlain Regional University: “Jay Gatsby and Pedro Paramo, Dreamers, Lovers, Fools”
Kris Peleg, “Contemplating Digital Evidence: Challenges for Biography”
Jason
Gallagher, University of Illinois: “Krazy
Kat: Comics in the Desert Southwest of the 1920s & 1930s”
Chair: Amelia de la Luz Montes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Ben Olguin, University of Texas, San Antonio: “Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Chicano Picaresque”
Frederick
Aldama, University of Colorado, Boulder:
“Re-theorizing the ‘Real’ in the Short Stories of Dagoberto Gilb and Luis
Rodriguez”
Rebecca Moreno, UC Berkeley: “The Body Remains: Sacrifice and Memory in Alejandro Morales’ The Brick People and Arturo Islas’ The Rain God”
Elizabeth Fenton, Rice University: “Forgetting the Priest and the Devil: Confession and the Construction of Sexual Truth in Sor Juana’s Second Dream”
Creative Reading – On New Landscapes: Love-Hate Meditations
Chair: Michael L. Johnson, University of Kansas
Michael L. Johnson, University of Kansas: “Don’t Mess With Texas: Love-Hate Poems on the Lone-Star State”
John Bennion, Brigham Young University: “Selections from Falling Toward Heaven”
Jody Keisner, University
of Nebraska, Omaha: “Train Gang” (excerpt from a work in progress)
Colonialism, “Tradition,” Female Resistance
Chair: TBA
Angie Kritenbrink, University of Nebraska, Omaha: “Latina Authors, Feminine Traditions and the Feminist Canon”
Alexandra Ramirez, University of Nebraska, Omaha: “Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage: A Redefinition of Independence and Femininity”
Michael C. Carroll, University of Nebraska, Omaha: “Laura Tohe as Storyteller of a Dine Aesthetic”